A day after state District Judge Carlos Cortez had an assault charge against him dropped, a lawyer for his ex-girlfriend and accuser Maggie Strother continued to say that the judge abused his client.

“Maggie endured months of abuse, physical and verbal, during her relationship with Judge Coretz,” said Ted Steinke. “And yet she kept going back to him until on Dec. 28 she finally had enough.”

Steinke made the statement at a press conference with Strother by his side, though she said nothing. He also released recordings of phone conversations between Strother and the judge that he said exemplified their relationship.

In one such recording played at the press conference, Cortez sounds frustrated that Strother has had to cancel vacation plans with him. He calls her numerous expletives and threatens to release pictures of her.

“I will make sure that everyone knows who you [expletive] are,” he said at one point.

No explicit physical threats seemed to be made. The other recordings are being reviewed and will soon be uploaded onto this blog.

Steinke said he didn’t plan to release the recording until he saw comments made by Cortez and his lawyers after the case was dropped.

Cortez and his lawyers criticized the police investigation that led to Cortez’s arrest and said that Strother was drunk and on drugs at the time. They said she attempted suicide that night and they suggested that she accused Cortez of abuse because she was worried that police might try to take her child away.

One of Cortez’s lawyers, Pete Schulte, showed up at the news conference and said afterward that Steinke’s statements were “nothing new.” The case went to a grand jury, they declined to indict Cortez and it is now over, Schulte said.

“Every relationship has arguments and that is what is going on here,” Schulte said of the recording.

He said Cortez never abused Strother.

“It is time for everybody to move on,” he said.

Update at 4:11 p.m.: At a 4 p.m. press conference, attorney Ted Steinke, joined by Maggie Strother, played several minutes' worth of audio containing obscenities and threats Steinke says were made by Judge Carlos Cortez. We will post some of that audio shortly, along with comments from the judge's attorney, Pete Schulte, who crashed the press conference.

Original post at 3:16 p.m.: The he-said-she-said-they-said over the Dallas County grand jury's decision not to indict state District Judge Carlos Cortez shows no sign of relenting. Attorney Ted Steinke has called a 4 p.m. press conference to refute Cortez's statements made yesterday concerning his ex-girlfriend Maggie Strother, who Cortez was accused of assaulting on December 28. And now this: The Dallas Police Department has released a statement defending its actions that night -- and its decision to investigate and arrest the judge.

As we reported this morning, Cortez and his lawyers said Thursday police conducted a slipshod investigation of the incident. Dallas police disagree with that assessment.

"Contrary to recent media reports, senior officers were involved in the arrest and investigation of the offense involving Judge Carlos Cortez and the victim," says the statement. "There was ample evidence of probable cause for the case to be presented to the Grand Jury.

"Evidence of the victim’s injuries as well as witness statements supported her allegation that she had been assaulted by Judge Cortez. Responding officers correctly followed State Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure under Article 5.04 as well as the Police Department’s policies regarding the protection of victims of domestic violence. Responding officers arrested Judge Cortez at the scene for the offense of Assault Strangulation Family Violence F/3.

"Detectives from the Domestic Violence Unit contacted the victim the same day and interviewed her regarding the offense. Additional statements were taken from other witnesses and a search warrant was obtained to photograph the location of the offense."

According to police, Cortez was contacted by detectives, but he refused to cooperate.

"The completed case was reviewed by attorneys from the Dallas County District Attorney’s office and was presented to the Grand Jury without the investigating detective being present at the hearing," says the statement. "The Department was not made aware of the existence of any cell phone video taken by Judge Cortez of the victim on November 11, 2013 until the media reported its existence after the Grand Jury had met on February 20, 2014."

The videos to which DPD refers are those shown by Cortez and his attorneys on KDFW-Channel 4. Watch here: